JAMES HIPWELL & ANIL BHOYRUL
CITY SLICKERS - MAKE A MILLION IN TWELVE MONTHS
DANE TECHNICZNE (SH2)
OPRAWA: miekka
LICZBA STRON: 292
STAN: dobry +++
OPIS:
Through their column in the "Daily Mirror" and now in "Punch" magazine, the "slickers" have made a legion of people very rich and lately have done so in the most outrageous blaze of publicity. In this book, the "city slickers" guide the reader clearly through the ins and outs of the stock market, explain exactly what you need to get set up, and impart their own 12-month plan for making a million.
How it took so long is anyone's guess, but the City's laddish culture has finally found it's print equivalent in City Slickers. Where the Motley Fool is wry and funny and just a little bit cultish, Slickers James Hipwell and Anil Bhoyrul bring a football-terraces style, honed to perfection in the pages of the Mirror, to making money. The brashness of their Make A Million in Twelve Months boast is refreshing in a kind of lager, lager way--drowning out the familiar studiousness of more conservative offerings whose primary purpose seems to be to filter out all traces of energy and emotion from the markets.
If you don't happen to be a testosterone-fuelled male whose idea of fun is to "collect your cheque, head straight down Hampstead High Street to buy those Reiss trousers you couldn't afford. Then ring all your mates up for an almighty session in the local boozer", City Slickers won't be your tipple. If that strikes a chord, even if it's just in your dreams, you've found your investment Holy Grail. The information itself is a mixture of sound advice, straight-talking interpretations, boyish tricks and common sense wisdom, ranging from introductory first steps--what the City is, what stockbrokers do, how the market works and all the various different types of shares available--to more detailed stock picking, information gathering, transactions and money-making techniques. The tone is often macho ("What luck--£5million and it's all free of tax") and the section on spread betting is especially disturbing considering that the book is aimed primarily at beginners, but it has to go down as an entertaining antidote to bland, jargon heavy reference.
